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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7575366 | Watch The watch comprises a case (9) with a fixed part (10) in the shape of a bracket (20) and a mobile part (11) with a middle (21) and a movement (23) mounted onto the fixed part (10) so as to be able to swivel about a sw... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7440359 | Timepiece including means for determining the angular position of an analogue indicator of the timepiece The timepiece includes a motor which drives at least one hand via a gear reduction train (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), and means (22) for detecting at least one angular reference position of an intermediate wheel (9) forming part of the gear reduction... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7419297 | Control device for a push-piece, in particular for time piece, and portable electronic instrument comprising same There is disclosed a control device including (i) a support (4, 4.1), (ii) an electronic module (6, 60) arranged in or on the support, (iii) a push-button (2.1 to 2.5) mounted to be mobile on the support so as to have a travel in translat... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7359288 | Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock. After manufacture of the clock and before it is purchased by the user, a basic data set, including the time and geographical region data, are input to the cl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7322741 | Second hand reset device for a timepiece A setting device for a timepiece comprising a second-indicating element (1) and at least one other time-indicating element comprises a first manual control element (2) that can occupy a neutral position and a position for setting the other time-indicat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302758 | Manufacturing and mounting method of electrical contacts for control members of small dimensions, in particular for the horological field There is disclosed a method for manufacturing and mounting electric contacts for control members of small dimensions, particularly for control members used in the horological field. This method includes the following steps: a) stamping and pre-shaping a plate of ele... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7272077 | Watch with digital display Watch with digital display capable of being adjusted by a control device sensitive to rotation and to axial pressure. The watch comprises two lines of alphanumeric characters, of which one is used exclusively for displaying the current time and the other is used exc... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7171259 | Method and device for measuring heart rate, and method for manufacturing the device A heart rate measuring device is attached around a user's hand, the device having an inner surface, which is in contact with the skin on the hand to which it is attached, and an outer surface, which is other than the inner surface. The inner surface of the measuring... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7154818 | Radio controlled clock movement control system Disclosed is a radio controlled clock movement control system, including two stepper motors, two gearings, and a photo electronic control unit. The two stepper motors are operated independently each one driving a gearing, where the first gearing contains a second wh... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7092317 | Chronograph timepiece A chronograph timepiece has a movable crown, a start button operable to start and stop measurement of a time period in a chronograph mode using at least one chronograph hand, and a reset button operable to reset the chronograph hand to a zero position. A control cir... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065718 | System and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface A system and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface is presented. A user is able to configure a time-of-day and select a time zone on an electronic device using a maximum of two stylus movements. The user contacts a display with the... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065006 | Method for enabling displayability/inhibitability of mode functions in a multimode electronic device A method of enabling the displayability of at least one hidden mode in a multimode electronic device, wherein the method comprises the steps of determining that data in the at least one hidden mode satisfies a specified condition; and causing the mode indicator of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057629 | Control apparatus An object of this invention is to obtain a control apparatus capable of easily and speedily setting an output frequency, and it is constructed so as to change a change width of a frequency setting value in response to a rotational speed of a handle operation by an o... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7027363 | Time measurement system and method of controlling the same A time measurement system includes a master timepiece and a slave timepiece 3. The master timepiece includes a time signal generating circuit that receives a standard frequency and time signal and generates a time signal being receivable by a motor driving co... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6999380 | Clock apparatus adapted to summer time, monitoring camera apparatus having the same, and clock apparatus time setting method A timepiece comprises a standard time clock for counting standard time and means for calculating daylight saving time by adding a predetermined time correction value to the standard time when judging that the standard time is within the period of daylight saving tim... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6965543 | Radio controllable clock A radio controllable clock includes an analog display having a plurality of clock hands each fastened to a uniquely associated one of a plurality of clock hand shafts that each rotate about a common axis. The clock also includes a plurality of rotary gears each uniq... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6922375 | Super-thin hanging clock A super-thin hanging clock includes a housing, a transparent cover, and a core that has a first shell, a second shell fitted with the first shell and having a swingable lid to hide the battery and a through hole for the button to pass through, a stator, a PC board w... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909222 | Piezoelectric actuator, and timepiece and portable equipment having the same A diaphragm 10 is fixed to a base plate 102 by a screw 13. A lever 20 has a spring member 23, a rotor-fixing member 25, and an insertion hole 22 formed therein. By passing a shaft 21 through the insertion hole ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6868046 | Electronic watch including capacitive keys on its crystal The watch is provided with a circular row of capacitive keys defined by transparent electrodes (21 to 32) arranged on the inner face of the crystal (5) of the watch and connected to a detection device via a multiplexer. These keys are activated ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6830371 | High accuracy timepiece An accuracy adjustment apparatus for a timepiece has an accuracy adjustment data input control section including a case-mounted switch such as a crown of the timepiece. A crown state detection signal is used to determine the state of the crown. When an accuracy adju... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6811304 | Analog electronic timepiece To enable to easily stop a second hand at a 0 second position even in an analog electronic timepiece operating a hand at a high period. A dividing circuit outputs a low frequency pulse signal and a high frequency pulse signal at predetermined frequencies to a contro... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6798718 | Sensor timepiece, sensor timepiece data input system and method, and computer readable recording medium To make calibration of temperature compensation etc. of individual sensor timepieces straightforward, to carry out measurements of physical quantities by each type of sensor in a highly precise manner, to make setting of a time and date for implementing the original... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6781922 | Electronic timepiece To reduce power consumption by operating hands only when needed. By operating to depress a mode changeover switch, a second hand is moved selectively to a hand operation start time setting mode (WAKE) position, a hand operation stop time setting mode (SLEEP) and an ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6669361 | Method for enabling/disabling mode functions in a multimode electronic device A method for enabling or disabling mode functions in a multimode electronic device is provided. The method comprises the steps of selecting a mode enabling/disabling mode from a plurality of modes by initiating activation of the mode selecting mechanism u... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6623157 | Electronic timepiece and method for transmitting data for electronic timepiece In an analog electronic timepiece, when a detection circuit detects an external calling signal, a data storage circuit and a data-transmission-signal pulse generating circuit are used to achieve data transmission through a motor coil and a driving circuit... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6611476 | Electronic watch An electronic watch has a help switch for switching between a help state and a non-help state, an input circuit for converting the state of the help switch into switch information, and a help information storage circuit for storing help information to be ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6604851 | Method for setting a multimode electronic device A method of setting a multimode electronic device operable in a current mode, a mode setting mode and a next mode. If a predetermined number of electrical signals are generated prior to the expiration of a predetermined period of time, the electronic devi... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6601988 | Simplified method for setting time using a graphical representation of an analog clock face Time values (hour, minute, AM/PM parameter) can be simply and quickly set in a computer system using a graphical representation of a circular analog clock face. Time setting zones (hour-indicative sectors and minute-indicative subsectors) are defined on t... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6570822 | Time period setting structure of timer A time period setting structure of a timer, in which a rotary disk is provided on a periphery of a setting disk, and a transparent fixing cover and several setting keys are provided in the setting disk. A LCD is also provided in the transparent fixing cov... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567344 | Clock Method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially activating a clock. After manufacture of the clock and before it is purchased by the user, a basic data set, including the time and geographical region data, are inpu... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6542438 | Electronic watch transmitting/receiving system A data transmitting/receiving system is configured so as to send data to an analog-type watch, without the need to make direct electrical contact thereto and without influencing the drive of the hands of the watch. When a timing signal that is sent from t... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6454458 | Timepiece including means for indicating the angular position of coaxial analogue display indicators A first (5) of the indicators and a first pipe (1) form part of an angular position indicating moving part (MR1) carrying a plate (9) co-operating with a first sensor (11) for generating a position signal for said indicator as a result of discontinuities ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6443614 | Wrist-worn instrument face with indicating icons for programming Embodiments of a wrist-worn instrument face display that has dot matrix indicating icons for programming or prompting the instrument. The icons may be single or combinations of symbols, numbers and text. In particular, the icons indicate a function of the... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6420959 | Multi-level user interface for a multimode device A multimode electronic device having a plurality of manually actuated buttons for selecting between a plurality of modes and functions wherein at least one of the modes has at least two second level functions. The device can cycle among the modes upon the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6414908 | Electronic clock and pointer position detecting method A center wheel & pinion of a wheel train is formed so that high load is applied to the wheel train when a minute hand stands at twelve o'clock. A pulse control circuit outputs a normal driving pulse. When a motor does not rotate by the normal driving puls... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6386754 | Crown control for enhanced quadribalanced digital time displays Quadribalanced digital time displays and methods comprising increasing digital minutes displayed on the right flank of centrally positioned digital present hours, in relatively upper and lower positions during the first and second quarter hours, followed ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6343050 | Analog clock driven by radio signals with automatic resetting means An analog clock with a contiguous digital display is driven by radio signals from a WWVB or other time keeping radio station. To avoid using magnetic or optical feedback of the position of the hands of the analog clock if an erroneous time is shown (for e... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6307814 | Device including at least two coaxial wheels and means for detecting the angular position thereof and method for detecting said angular positions A device of small dimensions includes a two coaxial wheels (4, 6) respectively including two plates (44, 46) parallel to each other. A sensor (10) including a detection element (14).formed by a magnetic or capacitive element, in particular a flat spiral c... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6304518 | Clockworks, timepiece and method for operating the same A clockworks, a timepiece and a method for operating a timepiece. The timepiece comprises a housing providing a face, the face having indicators corresponding to respective time increments, a plurality of hands rotatably supported on the face, the plurali... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6286991 | Crown control for enhanced quadribalanced digital time displays Quadribalanced digital time displays and methods comprising increasing digital minutes displayed on the right flank of centrally positioned digital present hours, in relatively upper and lower positions during the first and second quarter hours, followed ... | 09/11/2001 |
